White Lama - Book 2: Road to Redemption

The White Lama / Le Lama Blanc #4-6

by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Georges Bess (Illustrator)

Book by Jodorowsky, Alexandro

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1988

About the author

Also credited as Alexandro Jodorowsky

Better known for his surreal films El Topo and The Holy Mountain filmed in the early 1970s, Alejandro Jodorowsky is also an accomplished writer of graphic novels and a psychotherapist. He developed Psychomagic, a combination of psychotherapy and shamanic magic. His fans have included John Lennon and Marilyn Manson.

Reviews

[Augusto Bernardi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely good comic book with once again top tear illustrations and really deep Buddhist concepts mixed into a actually exciting and unique story. The story continues the story of Gabriel in his spiritual quest and also saving his friends and family from the corruption and injustice in the village and monastery. Gabriel was older and more mature in this sequel so there was no shortage of action and understanding of himself and the world around him.

Spoiler alert, Gabriel does end up reaching enlightenment by having pretty much everything taken away from him. His mother dies alone in hatred and he even looses his monk friends and they fly off into the spirit world inside a floating mud hut. Gabriel also receives much needed help from his friend from a past life, the yeti from the previous edition.
Later on Gabriel presents some insane powers like, creating a giant mystical scorpion, an earthquake, immortality and healing powers. The story also takes several surprising turns to me who am unfamiliar with Buddhist teachings but I did find them to be beautiful and fitting to the story.

I would really like to read more of Jodorowsky in the future.

[Alex Fyffe · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Theo Karaeng · Rating 4 out of 5]

tiada yang lebih jahat dari seorang ibu jelmaan iblis yang memanfaatkan anaknya untuk membalaskan dendamnya..

[Felipe Chiaramonte · Rating 3 out of 5]

Para quem só conhece o Jodorowsky de "Holy Mountain" ou "El Topo", a magnitude de seu gênio, que brilha muito além do cinema, estendendo-se a quadrinhos e psicomagia, é de cegar a visão. Basta entrar no Twitter oficial do @DalaiLama, que há alguns minutos postou: "I believe a proper use of our time is to serve others if we can or at least refrain from harming them. That is the basis of my philosophy", para constatar que Sua Santidade realmente se dissolveu no mundo na forma em que o mundo se tomou e assumiu um novo compromisso com seus habitantes. Apesar de Jodorowsky não chegar a esta conexão tecno-espiritual explícita (apesar de abordar diretamente isso em "Incal" e seus derivados "Metabarões" e "Technopriests") seu "Lama Branco" parece aludir a tal fato - não se trata de uma fábula de tempos longínquos, quando quase não também de uma fábula, afinal, de tão próxima com os fatos históricos com que se faz radiar.

Longe da profundidade e disseminação de idéias budistas de "Buda", obra-prima do mangaká Osamu Tezuka, o foco de Jodorowsky é outro, condizente com o escopo de todas suas outras obras - o massacre de culturas, a corrupção causada pelo poder, a herança de nossos antepassados e a jornada solitária pelo conhecimento. Seu protagonista parece irradiar tão pouca individualidade frente a tantos fatores de influência, que a ele parece apenas restar-lhe o vazio, para que enfim se ache em si mesmo. Não soa muito diferente da luta travada por qualquer outro habitante deste planeta, nestes tempos tão modernos, quando, por um instante ou acaso, param para olhar para a dobra que existe entre o punho e o antebraço e imaginam ali uma montanha, ou um abismo, ou encruzilhadas, ou marcas passadas, ou...

[Marsha Altman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have similar feelings to this book as I have to Book 1: the art is amazing, the research the author did is fantastic, and the story is great, but the idea of a white savior of Tibet is problematic. There's definitely no other comic books about Tibet that are on this level of sophistication, though.

[Koen Setyawan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Novel grafis yang menawan dengan eksplorasi ilustrasi mengagumkan. Gayanya "Sangat eropa". Ada yang berbeda dengan komik a la Amerika. Pemilihan warna yang dominan kemerahan anehnya justru memancarkan aroma kemistisan sang budha

[Nadya]

Gak suka endingnya. Huh!